Toward Perpetual Peace #5
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PLEASE READ THIS
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READ FOR NEXT TIME
For next time l please finish the book. Here's what's left:
Second Supplement
Appendix I
Appendix II
That is, read paragraphs
8:369 thru 8:386, which comprise
Pages 337 thru 351 in Cambridge's Kant's Practical Philosophy
COMING UP
09/06/26 - Session 5: Second Supplement
09/20/26 - Session 6: Appendix I
10/04/26 - Final Session: Appendix II
THE PRELIMINARY ARTICLES
1. Peace treaties should be entered into in good faith.
2. Nations are not properties to be inherited or received as a gift.
3. No standing armies.
4. No national debt for war.
5. No state shall interfere in the governing of another state.
6. No atrocities that would make a peace treaty impossible.
THREE DEFINITIVE ARTICLES
1. Nations should be republic (right of state)
2. Nations should form a league of nations (right of nations)
3. Nations should allow visitors from other countries, and visitors to other countries should not exploit their hosts (cosmopolitan right).
FIRST SUPPLEMENT - Nature will guarantee a perpetual peace (but we may not like how it does that).
PARKING LOT
I added two new questions that came up with the last meeting. If anyone wants to take a stab at answering them, they're down here in the parking lot. If you are familiar to the Kant group and want to give a presentation on your answer, let me know. I welcome the opportunity to give others some presentation time.
RESOURCES
OUR FIRST "TOWARD A PERPETUAL PEACE" RESOURCE!!
If you are able, check this out and see if it makes any sense. Tell me where I might be going wrong.
Below are resources for understanding Critique of Judgment.
https://kantandkoffee.substack.com/s/philosophy-of-immanuel-kant